DAFYDD AB GWILYM (i 4th cent.) , Welsh poet, a con temporary of Chaucer, was born at Bro Gynin, Cardiganshire, about 134o, and died about 1400. He was elected chief bard of Glamorgan, and was household bard to his kinsman, Ivor Hael of Maesaleg. After an unsuccessful attempt to elope with Mor fudd Lawgam, to whom he addressed 147 odes, he was imprisoned, but was ransomed by his friends in Glamorgan. He wrote nature poems, the best of which are : "The Lark," "The Wind" and "The Mist." George Borrow, who called him the Horace of Wales, translated some of his verses, most of which were written in the cywydd form ; i.e., a short ode not divided into stanzas, each line having the same number of syllables.